| Name : nettle
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| Version : 1.12
| Vendor : Dag Apt Repository, http://dag_wieers_com/apt/
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| Release : 1.el5.rf
| Date : 2007-03-05 22:13:50
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| Group : Development/Libraries
| Source RPM : nettle-1.12-1.el5.rf.src.rpm
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| Size : 2.33 MB
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| Packager : Dries Verachtert < dries_ulyssis_org>
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| Summary : Cryptographic library
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Description :
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or
less any context: in crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++,
Python, Pike, etc.), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel
space. In most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic
algorithms; you also need some way to keep track of available algorithms and
their properties and variants. You often have some algorithm selection
process, often dictated by a protocol you want to implement. And as the
requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so subtle ways, an API
that fits one application well can be a pain to use in a different context,
which is why there are so many different cryptographic libraries around.
Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the low-level crypto
stuff, and providing a simple but general interface to it. In particular,
Nettle doesn\'t do algorithm selection. It doesn\'t do memory allocation. It
doesn\'t do any I/O. The idea is that one can build several application- and
context-specific interfaces on top of Nettle and share the code, testcases,
benchmarks, documentation, etc.
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RPM found in directory: /packages/linux-pbone/archive/pkgs.repoforge.org/nettle |
